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undary-line (see this record, 1682)......Dec. 9, 1763 Barbarities of Indians at this time disposed the frontiersmen to destroy every Indian—enemy or not. A remnant of a friendly tribe at Conestoga is massacred by frontiersmen termed Paxton boys ; a few escape and flee to Lancaster for refuge, but are followed and killed. The pursuers hearing of friendly Indians in Philadelphia, march towards them, but are met by Franklin, who, after a long negotiation, persuades them to disperse......Dec. 27, 1763–January, 1764 Colonel Bouquet's expedition against the Ohio Indians from Fort Pitt......Oct. 30, 1764 Dr. Shippen begins in Philadelphia the first course of lectures upon anatomy ever delivered in America......1764 Franklin, having returned from England in 1762, is sent again by the Assembly to petition for a change of government from proprietary to royal authority; sails......Nov. 7, 1764 [The petition, however, was dropped, owing to other matters of more weight. See this r